THE “RAPTA” [TIGHT SLAP]

                             THE “RAPTA” [TIGHT SLAP]

From childhood we are taught that we should be respectful to our elders, we shouldn’t use high connotation while talking to elders and definitely do as they say as they possess the grey hair wisdom. If we don’t follow those golden rules we will end up being thwarted, mortified as a failure.

The ACCIDENT

There was an accident at 9 am at the Pitampura crossing last night. A car [swift] was turning right that suddenly a bike [some pizza delivery bike] banged into the side door leading to a huge dent in the car. The car and the bike clogged. The rider gave the excuse that his brakes got stuck; hence he couldn’t halt the acceleration of the bike.

As usual, people collected near, expecting to see a fight. The car driver called his family and the bike rider called his boss. The police was also informed.

Fifteen minutes later, everyone came in, from cops, accuse and the plaintiff. A quality crowd assembled finding the cynosure of the incident. As the matter was being inspected, a man, may be in his early fifties.But with a fine lithe approached the scene and asked the accuse party to settle the matter by apologizing. He persuades them politely and gave a small push to one of them. It was not a violent one, just a slight thrush to pry him to apologize. The gentlemen wanted the matter to wind up fast as it was bringing lot of undue attention and the surrounding roads were becoming jam-packed with traffic.

But the friend of the accuse (who was pushed by the man) felt offended and rudely asked the gentleman to mind his own business and even went to an extent of abusing him and condemning him for pushing him aggressively. The man lost his patience and as soon as the friend of accuse was through his brute words, the man slapped him tight on his face. The “Rapta” with a banging sound, coming straight landing on his cheeks.

The accuse friend was taken aback; he did not expect this coming from the elderly man. Full in rage, he came to retort him with his words and dealings.

Then the most unexpected happened. The old man turned out to be a boxer himself. He took off his T-shirt and threw it on the ground.

Be holding their breath and with a synchronous awe the crowd looked at the six packed abs and strong protruding chest which were ambush by the white T-shirt.

Few hand and feet movement, and in fraction of seconds the accused friend was on his knees. The cops stand there as they were spectator. And the crowd had free fund trailer to one of the action packed Bollywood Flick.

Now, the scene have changed, new victim and accuse have debuted. The accused friend had no power left to rebuke back. The old man stayed for a while staring at him expecting may be something is more left in him. But in deficiency of any reaction, he eased his stiffed body and walked away, leaving everyone in utter disbelief.

After couple of minutes, accused friend was helped by two people to stand on his feet. He stood, wiped out the strains of blood oozing out of his bruises and with all the strength left in him said loudly “if he wasn’t an old man, I would have hit him back. Just left him because of his age and…..”

But before he could complete, his strength drenched out and he fainted only to wake up hours later in the hospital. He survived, but the bruises on his ego would take hell-more time to heal.

MORAL

“If you can’t control your tongue, you can’t prevent breaking of your tang [Punjabi word for leg]

 {PUN INTENDED}